Sunan an-Nasa'i 3950

Muhammad ibn Adam informed me, from ʿAbdah, from Hisham, from ʿAwf ibn al-Harith, from Rumaythah, from Umm Salamah, that the Prophet’s wives asked her to speak to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and tell him that people would deliberately bring their gifts on ʿAishah’s day. They told her to say: ‘We love good things just as ʿAishah does.’ She spoke to him, but he did not answer her. When he came around to her again, she spoke to him again, but he did not answer. The wives asked her: ‘What did he say to you?’ She replied: ‘He did not answer me.’ They said: ‘Do not leave him until he answers you, or until you see what he says.’ When he came around to her again, she spoke to him, and he said: ‘Do not distress me concerning ʿAishah, for revelation has never come down to me while I was beneath the wrap of any of you except while I was beneath ʿAishah’s wrap.’ Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman said: ‘These two hadiths from ʿAbdah are sound.’